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If you go back up to my sketchup views you'll see the layout for the panels, although it's a bit hard to pick up at this size. They are typically from column to column (1.5 - 1.8m) and 600mm high.

I'm still a little conflicted on the screen wall. The room will be used for a lot of music listening so I'm trying to avoid making it too grim. The masking system I'm getting from Chris Young in Melb has a reasonably wide perimeter frame which is covered in black velvet.

I may well try the Cobalt and if I'm not happy it's not a huge task to change the fabric.

Absolutely love the colours Peter. Really nice with the carpet. I think it will look great. If I was going blues, they would be it. Like Elill said, you going black around the screen or the darker blue?

Price wise it makes no difference ... Trilogy One also has an OK black. Decisions, decisions ... ???

The lighting layout is already finalised and wiring is going in. The main lighting is provided by 21 LED downlights, plus there's an LED ropelight around the perimeter of the ceiling baffle. Clipsal has just released their own dimmable LED downlight which is compatible with the C-Bus electronic dimming.

Just discovered your thread. Looks awesome, will continue to check for updates :-)

One question I had, was how you went about getting the design done? I built/converted a room to a theatre about 3 yrs ago, and the hardest part at the time was actually trying to get help on the design and look and feel of it. Aus is very immature compared to the US in that regard.

Just discovered your thread. Looks awesome, will continue to check for updates :-)

One question I had, was how you went about getting the design done? I built/converted a room to a theatre about 3 yrs ago, and the hardest part at the time was actually trying to get help on the design and look and feel of it. Aus is very immature compared to the US in that regard.

Keep up the great work
Michael

Hi Michael,

Thanks, and please stick around. Now that it's officially a pissing contest I'm out to topple Greg as king of the Downunder theatre threads.

A couple of years ago when I started on the house and theatre design, the room was intended to be much more like my previous rooms which were really just some gear thrown in, a few treatments scattered on the walls, and a drop down screen.

After years here at AVS I was very familiar with Dennis Erskine and his reputation, so I took the plunge and employed him to do the room. My original brief to Dennis was more like my old rooms with speakers out in the room, drop down screen etc. Over many months of back and forth with Dennis the room slowly morphed into what you see now. I guess a lot of the aesthetics came from me and my desire to keep it simple and clean. Dennis was great in working with my preferences, but the acoustics are entirely his design. It's a large room and he had plenty of space to work with so I expect the result to be spectacular. It's literally killing me waiting for it to be ready !!

At the risk of sounding a bit Mystic Sniperish.... why didn't you go for a slightly larger home theatre....looks a bit pokey in there Pete!
Seriously, would love to have a space like that but I can't afford to power it!
Looking great mate...coming along well. Nice looking home.

For those that are not inclined to google it as FOH has done ... OSD stands for On-site Stormwater Detention. I have no idea how it works in other cities, but here in Sydney the stormwater system can't cope with the volume of runoff in a major storm. This is partly due to larger houses being built with more impervious area, decreasing the natural soak in and increasing the runoff. The authorities solution was to legislate that all new developments must detain and then slowly release the stormwater. Our tank actually does double duty as part of it is for reuse (garden and toilets) and the rest is OSD.

Isn't it amazing how our folks all managed to live quite happily without arbitrary floor space ratios, enforced windows, on site detention tanks, grey water recycling and BASIX codes that cost tens of thousands of dollars. Then there is the need for landscaping plans, paying a long service levee, council application fees, engineering fees. No wonder the building market is jn a downturn... The on costs are almost as much as the construction. councils are destroying the industry! If you ask me, it's those bloody engineers ruining everything! Lol

Dont get me started on councils, the idiots up my way approved the easment for services for our place under a heritage listed tree which we couldn't dig within 10m of........$30k later.......this is why I aint got no room!

Looking great Peter....
That is one helluva room. Even if you painted it black it would still look huge
Predicting much work in there over the next week or so?
Hopefully they keep up the cracking pace. Bet you're glad you don't need to hang all that drywall!